Quote Originally Posted by Cortexian View Post
Waste is a totally incorrect term? None of it is being wasted (hopefully), it's all being used towards game development. The $34,000,000 that they have now is in AAA budget territory, so as long as we get a AAA quality game everyone will be happy.
yeah man because you need 34 million dollars to make a good game. it better be good if they have that kind of budget.

It's one thing to donate towards something you think is cool and care about, but on the other hand you are also essentially paying to win. Sure, developers need money to cover costs such as software licensing, but if the people you are donating too are as dedicated as you think, they probably could make a pretty nice game in CryEngine 3 without a ton of money to do so. Also note the fact of how much money they have raised and their popularity, they will be rolling in even more dough by the time it releases. Look at all the indie games that have started from nothing and have become huge successes. A game also isn't competitive when you have people paying to get new items, weapons, ships (etc). Sure, you helped finance the game, but does that mean you should be getting stuff like this to be automatically better than other people upon the games release? A game normally should be using peoples skill, not their money, when it comes to things like this, and should be fair.

Like Warsaw said, knowing what happens when you donate also makes a huge difference.